When will banks stop worrying and learn to love Open Source?
Tuesday 04 August 2020
Over 20 years ago Eric Raymond wrote a philosophical essay on a technical subject – software engineering. His story centred on two distinct styles of development: The Cathedral, where software is carefully and quietly crafted by individuals within an isolated, mostly secret development team. And The Bazaar, where chaotic, babbling open source development, miraculously coherent
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Open Source, Rosy Outlooks and Shiny Things – FTT Chats Episode 20
Tuesday 21 July 2020
Nigel Abbott, Regional Director – North EMEA at GitHub joins us for our ongoing series – FTT Chats – where we sit down with the great and the good of FinTech to discuss innovation, new entrants, and emerging technologies. In this FTT Chat, Abbott talks about the last hurdle for Open Source in Financial services, regulatory balance
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Dark secrets, financial services and Open Source
Monday 16 December 2019
We sat down with Nigel Abbott, Regional Director, North EMEA at GitHub to talk about how Open Source is being used in financial services at FinTECHTalents 2019. Watch the video now. Is Open Source a ‘dark secret’ in financial services? I think for a number of reasons I would suspect that there’s an element of
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Is the Future for FinServ Open Sourced? – Be a part of our Vox Pop Report
Tuesday 24 September 2019
We here at FinTECHTalents are curious to hear your thoughts on the emergence of communities and organizations being created for open source projects in the financial services industry. We are looking to gather the thoughts of those who work closely with banks, financial institutions and established FinTech companies, to identify the priorities and maturity levels of
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Coding is the world’s largest team sport
Tuesday 10 September 2019
There is a common misconception that software developers work in silos, however, collaboration is one of the most important characteristics for being a good developer. GitHub provides a platform and a community to connect the millions of people each year creating software and building innovative solutions. What is GitHub? GitHub is an open source developer
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